Celbridge Abbey
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghcumper, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 5.6 ha
- 14 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 1,973 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Celbridge Abbey, from 597 m² to 4,657 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Celbridge Abbey in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Celbridge Abbey in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Celbridge Abbey.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Celbridge Abbey.
Architectural heritage
- Vent pipe, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, c.1880, comprising fluted pedestal with inscription, moulded necking and cylindrical shaft over having moulded necking. Now disused. Road fronted on grass verge.
- The Abbey National School, school, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached ten-bay single-storey national school, dated 1845, on a bow-ended symmetrical plan; three-bay single-storey side elevations. Now disused. Bow-ended hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls originally roughcast on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings centred on cut-limestone date stone ("1845") with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Pair of round-headed flanking door openings with rendered surrounds framing "fanlight"-detailed rendered infill. Pointed-arch door openings (side elevations) with rendered block-and-start surrounds framing rendered infill. Pointed-arch flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.
- The Abbey, foot bridge, 1725–1775 · Regional interest
Description
Four-arch rubble stone footbridge over river, c.1750, with cut-stone triangular cut-waters, rock-faced voussoirs, cut-stone coping and pedestrian gateway to south-east comprising triangular-headed opening with cut-stone voussoirs, rubble stone piers and cut-stone stringcourse over having rubble stone parapet wall. Rubble stone walls. Cut-stone triangular cut-waters. Rubble stone parapet walls. Cut-stone coping. Four segmental arches. Rocked-faced voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning River Liffey with grass banks to river.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2900 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Celbridge Abbey, Celbridge13 sales
The townland
- Name
- Celbridge Abbey
- Area
- 56,069 m² (5.61 ha, 13.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghcumper, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt South
- Electoral division
- Donaghcumper, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Celbridge, Celbridge Abbey, Donaghcumper, Newtown, Simmonstown
- Placenames
- Celbridge Abbey on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.